The Cliffs of Insanity

This was our third tour out of Galway. It was a lovely city, with a lot of neat places in it, but the real beauty is the countryside. Lots of history, involving a lot of castles. But more excitingly was the natural beauty and geological formations. I know what you're thinking, "Oh, Jesse. Geological formations are boring." Oh, no. Not when you consider the 702 ft high Cliffs of Moher. It was big. Super high. We took a tour bus that passed through Galway Harbour, and rounded around the Burren. Lots of rocks and more uninteresting geological formations. When Cromwellian English forces tried to conquer the Irish peoples, they said "There's not enough water to drown a man, not enough trees to hang a man, and no dirt to bury him. The Irish can keep the Burren." It's not a nice place, but people still call it home. It's a short drive from the ocean, but there's not enough grass to graze sheep. Anyways, after passing through the barren Burren, we stopped at an old pagan grave thingy (that really just looked like a table) made from slabs of stone, stacked precariously in the middle of the Burren. The photos are near the end of the slide show. After the Burren, we came to a fairy circle. It was a defensive structure of stone in the stone age, but became a circular grassy knoll some centuries ago.